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• My reaction to 'Sin City' is easily stated. I loved it. Or, to put it another way, I loved it, I loved it, I loved it. I loved every gorgeous sick disgusting ravishing overbaked blood-spurting artificial frame of it. A tad hypocritical? Yes. But sometimes you think, Well, I'll just go to hell.

  David Edelstein

  Thinking, Blood, Sin City

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• I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.

  Pitbull

  Cuba, Would Be, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And it's absolutely hypocritical for the political party that talks about states rights, to suddenly ignore states rights, that say that the federal government or federalism has no business in this kind of business.

  Gary Ackerman

  Party, Rights, Government

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• It is my view that it is a big embarrassment for Africa . It is hypocritical for African leaders to talk about democracy and human rights and to be silent when these things are happening in Zimbabwe .

  Raila Odinga

  Rights, Views, Zimbabwe

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• Imagine that -- a country that's supposed to be a democracy, supposed to be for freedom and all of that kind of stuff when they want to draft you and put you in the army and send you to Saigon to fight for them -- and then you've got to turn around and all night long discuss how you're going to just get a right to register and vote without being murdered. Why, that's the most hypocritical government since the world began!

  Malcolm X

  Country, Army, Fighting

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• The reason people hate America is because they don't like being treated like garbage by arrogant, pompous, hypocritical, self-righteous, duplicitous, imperialist political and bureaucratic hacks.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Hate, America, Self

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• Humans are very seldom either totally sincere or totally hypocritical. Their moods change, their motives are mixed, and they are often quite mistaken as to what their motives are.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mood Changes, Sincere, Motive

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.101, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• There's something hypocritical about a city that keeps half of its population underground half of the time; you can start believing that there's much more space than there really is-to live, to work.

  Gloria Naylor

  New York, Believe, Cities

  FaceBook post by Gloria Naylor from Mar 15, 2017

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• America is basically a hypocritical society and recognizes that hypocrisy is found throughout. The public doesn't look for politicians to tell the truth or to deliver on their promises. This country could become America the beautiful, but it never will. It's in the hands of the wrong people. And the public is so apathetic. Those who are not apathetic are dispirited, discouraged, and disheartened. Those who will sometimes feel a twitch of inspiration that would lead them to do something, they, based on their conditioning, will start to total up all the reasons why they can't succeed.

  Ernie Chambers

  Beautiful, Country, Inspiration

  "The Maverick of Omaha". Interview With Michael Beckel, www.motherjones.com. January 5, 2006.

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• I am not afraid of the priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering, without being able to give me one moment of pain.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pain, Lying, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816”, p.507, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues.

  James Iha

  Strong, Talking, Issues

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• At the very end, the one person who Rambo should kill, he doesn't kill. He lets it live. Because you can't kill that kind of hypocritical bureaucracy. It goes on forever.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Forever, Rambo, Goes On

  "New again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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• I don't like people who are hypocritical, who pretend to be nice, particularly in show business when they're nice on camera, and then off camera they're absolutely appalling to the makeup people, or the waitress in a restaurant, you know? I don't like - I can't bear those kind of people. So I like people who are, you know, up front in your face.

  Simon Cowell

  Nice, Makeup, People

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. March 17, 2006.

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• Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Gold, Useless, Ethics

  E.L. Doctorow (2013). “Ragtime, The March, and Homer & Langley: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.59, Random House

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• We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

  Barbara Jordan

  Sea, People, Example

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical.

  Shane Smith

  America, Canada, Boring

  "Vice's Shane Smith on What's Wrong With Canada, Facebook and Occupy Wall Street" by Jeff Bercovici, www.forbes.com. January 3, 2012.

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• Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy.

  Karl E. Weick

  Business, Organization, Wander

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• Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

  Ayn Rand

  Humor, Deep Thought, Action

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• I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical.

  Mira Sorvino

  Sex, Hate, People

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• I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this country. I'm up for petrol bombers, mate, and fighting in the streets.

  Pete Doherty

  Music, Country, Passion

  Metro, August 25, 2006.

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• The smile that covered a "multitude of pains" was no hypocritical mask. She was trying to hide her sufferings - even from God! - so as not to make others, especially the poor, suffer because of them. When she promised to do "a little extra praying & smiling" for one of her friends, she was alluding to an acutely painful and costly sacrifice: to pray when prayer was so difficult and to smile when her interior pain was agonizing.

  Brian Kolodiejchuk

  Prayer, Pain, Sacrifice

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• Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the stupid, the pretentious and the hypocritical.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Stupid, Writing, Race

  "Eighty-Five from the Archive: Dorothy Parker" by Erin Overbey, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2010.

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• Of course, Mr. Hannity was outraged that any American would not cross her hand over her heart and repeat the hypocritical words, one nation. Whenever we come up on the Fourth of You Lie, I think of Frederick Douglas and his masterful oration, The meaning of the Fourth of July to the Negro. Pledge the flag? I think not!

  Julianne Malveaux

  Lying, Heart, Thinking

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• Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Ungrateful, Fickle

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• You're my brother." "Those words don't mean anything where we're concerned. We aren't human. Their rules don't apply to us. Stupid laws about what DNA can be mixed with what. Hypocritical, really, considering. We're already experiments.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Stupid, Mean

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “City of Lost Souls”, p.446, Simon and Schuster

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